October 11-18, 2026

Helmsman Group™ Leadership at The Edge of the Wild

Strategic Leadership Immersion

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What to Expect

This is not a retreat. It is a structured reset for leaders operating under sustained pressure.

Held on a private estate in the Scottish Highlands, this program is designed for executives who are still performing but recognize that sustaining performance is becoming harder. Over six full working days, participants rebuild how they operate across four critical domains:

  • Decision-making under pressure

  • Psychological patterns

  • Strategic execution

  • Biological performance

This is a closed-door environment. Six executives. No observers. No fluff.

Only rigorous thinking, honest assessment, and practical recalibration.

Participants leave with a clear operating system and a 90-day execution plan.

"The quality of your decisions is determined long before you enter the room. Sleep, recovery, peer candor, physical challenge…these are not soft variables…they are your competitive infrastructure." Helmsman Group™ Philosophy

Program Pillars

Strategic Performance Architecture:

A structured framework for rebuilding how you lead: decision-making systems, energy management, and the organizational design of your most important asset — yourself.

Strategic Clarity:

Peer-level sessions with 5 other C-Suite Executives. Candid, facilitated, no audiences. Work real problems, not hypotheticals.

Clinical Performance and Comprehensive Bloodwork:

Nutritional psychiatry, sleep architecture, and recovery protocols from integrative medicine. Pre-retreat labs to assess hormonal health, inflammation, metabolic function, and nutritional status. Results inform your personalized protocol.

Psychological Assessment:

Pre-retreat psychological testing to identify cognitive patterns, stress responses, and leadership derailers.

Stoic Discipline:

Practical frameworks for decision-making under pressure.

The Land Itself:

23,000 acres of rewilded Highland terrain. Hiking, wild swimming, pheasant hunting, guided expeditions and more.

Who This Is For:

  • C-suite level executives navigating growth inflection points or major strategic pivots

  • Leaders who’ve optimized everything except how they think

  • Executives whose performance is ahead of their recovery

  • Those who want peers, not an audience - real conversation, not a keynote

  • Leaders ready to leave the comfort of the conference room behind

  • Anyone who suspects their biggest leverage is internal

What’s Included:

  • Pre-retreat psychological testing and bloodwork

  • Exclusive use of Alladale Lodge and private estate

  • All meals, whiskey tastings, and Highland hospitality and excursions. Transportation to and from airport.

  • Guided expeditions - Red Stag stalking with professional hunters, pheasant hunting, golf, wild terrain/hiking, trap shooting, etc.

  • Facilitated peer advisory sessions, daily and evening

  • Clinical performance assessment and personalized protocol

  • 90-Day Executive Performance Blueprint upon return

Our Facilitators

  • Meg Wilson MA, LCDC, LPC-S, ICAADC, NCC, CRNC, FBCA, Certified Professional Coach

    Co-Founder
    Founder, The Antidote ® - A Better You and Co-Founder, Helmsman Group™. Meg is a clinical psychotherapist and executive coach with 20+ years at the intersection of human performance, organizational behavior, and integrative medicine.  She is among a rare group of practitioners trained in blood chemistry, amino acid therapy, and nutritional psychiatry, bringing a level of biological precision to the performance of conversation that most clinicians and coaches never reach.

  • Shay Butts, Therapeutic Strategist and Executive Performance Advisor

    Co-Founder
    Founder, Summit Wellness and Co-founder, Helmsman Group™. Shay is the owner of Summit Wellness and former COO of a major wellness company. She brings deep operational experience and a grounded, no-nonsense approach to executive performance having led at the highest levels of one of the country’s most respected clinical health organizations.

  • Cassie Menn, MA, LPC, Interim CPO/Leadership Development Executive

    Interim CPO
    Cassie is an Organizational Development and Transformation executive with 20+ years leading enterprise-wide change across Fortune 500 and global organizations. What sets her apart is a rare combination of global management consulting and an MA in counseling psychology. She aligns leaders, systems, and behaviors simultaneously. At Alladale, she works with participants on the leadership patterns and behavioral dynamics that accelerate culture and human performance.

  • Dr. Todd Correlli, Psychologist

    Psychologist
    Dr. Todd Corelli is a clinical psychologist with 30 years of experience. He has built a national and international reputation as an independent consultant, called on by leading treatment programs, clinicians, and professionals across the country for his expertise in comprehensive psychological evaluation and assessment. At Alladale, Dr. Corelli brings diagnostic precision to high-performing leaders giving each participant a clear, clinically grounded picture of the cognitive and psychological patterns that drive their performance and the ones that quietly work against it.